ythapa's comments

On: Facebook to pay $10 million to settle suit

[ythapa]

Smart move by Facebook to settle early. This could have been a disaster if it was allowed to proceed. Facebook treads on very thin ice with some privacy laws. A very high risk company.

On: Actually using Ed

[ythapa]

I think sed pretty much displaced ed. I still use ed but sed offers the same functionality and it's easier to script. One exception is the j command for joining lines.

For better or worse, in some of today's base Linux distributions, you might find ed missing. You will almost always find sed though.

[ralph → ythapa]

sed is great but it's a stream editor; try moving the last line to the start of the file.

[tbe → ralph]

sed '$G;1h;1!H;$!d'

[ralph → tbe]

Nice try, but efficiency aside, it breaks.

    $ sed '$G;1h;1!H;$!d' <<<foo | hd
    00000000  66 6f 6f 0a 0a             |foo..|
    00000005
    $